This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is



Here are the rules:

• You MUST follow the theme and use at least one Cheery Lynn Designs die, of course, we would love to see more than one. 
• You MUST add a link to your blog post in the InLinkz at the end of this post; no back posting, only new projects are allowed
• You MUST link to our blog in your post

The winner will be chosen based on merit by Cheery Lynn Designs.  They will receive a $20 coupon for shopping at the Cheery Lynn website.  The challenge will end on Sunday night at 22:00 Eastern time.

In addition we have a guest sponsor this week.  Di has graciously offered a $10 voucher to her store, Di's Digi Downloads.  The winner will be chosen by Random.org.

Di says...I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started card making about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a card making kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with like minded people.  I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.   This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

So here is a little inspiration for 'Tis the Season using Di's Penguin's Sleigh Ride

This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is



Here are the rules:

• You MUST follow the theme and use at least one Cheery Lynn Designs die, of course, we would love to see more than one. 
• You MUST add a link to your blog post in the InLinkz at the end of this post; no back posting, only new projects are allowed
• You MUST link to our blog in your post

The winner will be chosen based on merit by Cheery Lynn Designs.  They will receive a $20 coupon for shopping at the Cheery Lynn website.  The challenge will end on Sunday night at 22:00 Eastern time.

In addition we have a guest sponsor this week.  Di has graciously offered a $10 voucher to her store, Di's Digi Downloads.  The winner will be chosen by Random.org.

Di says...I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started card making about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a card making kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with like minded people.  I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.   This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

So here is a little inspiration for 'Tis the Season using Di's Penguin's Sleigh Ride

Congratulations, Selma.  Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs.  And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge.  We hope to see you again.

Congratulations, Selma.  Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs.  And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge.  We hope to see you again.

I am posting today in place of Marley, she is a bit under the weather but hopefully will be back with us soon.  Today is the last day to enter the Flowers challenge here on the Cheery Lynn Designs blog for a chance to win a $20 coupon for shopping at the Cheery Lynn Designs website.  So with that in mind I decided to create some roses using the new Rose dies.


Not really knowing what I was going to make, I first created 4 roses using the Miniature Rose, Medium Rose and Large Rose dies.  Then I used Judy's Blooms and Cherry Blossoms to add more layers to the flowers.


I added Sweetheart Frame to the card front and then the flourish ends from the Victorian Romance Flourish.  At this point I realized I had too many flowers, trying to add more than one made it look really cluttered. To create the rose in the center of this flower, I used all 3 dies. I wanted it to be really full as it was the main focal point for the card.   Have you watched the video on Cheery Lynn Designs website that shows you how to create the center to make the rose more realistic?  I found I had better luck if I glued the layers down staggered one on top of each other, then put the brad through it before shaping my rose.  That way I did not have to deal with the brad moving while I was gluing the petals, nor did my layers try to spin around. 


In the picture above, the rose in the center is made with Miniature Rose, the one on the left is Medium Rose as is the one on the base of the card.  I got better the more I made.  I found that curling the edges of the petals added quite a bit to the roses.  To finish the base, I added two Anastasia borders above and below my Ribbon Eyelet Border w/piercing.  The last step was to add the Happy Birthday Peel Off stickers to a panel cut with my Scalloped Oval Little Stackers die.  Finished size is 5.5 inches square.